Circular Scroll Saw Designs: Fretwork Patterns for Trivets, Coasters, Wall Art & More

by Charles R. Hand

Overview

Try your hand at contemporary fretwork scroll saw projects! Offering a modern twist on a traditional artform, this complete guide features how-to tips, three complete step-by-step tutorials, and 27 scroll saw patterns of peace signs, butterflies, flowers, mandalas, and other fresh designs to challenge your scroll saw skills. This exciting project guide will show you everything you need to know to accomplish intricate trivets, coasters, and wall plaques. Also included is insightful information on wood selection and size, blank preparation, blade selection, a gallery of completed designs, and more! Author Charles Hand is an accomplished designer and award-winning scroll saw artist with a love for fretwork, intarsia, segmentation, and inlay. A regular contributor to Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine, he also sells his work to a world-wide clientele on his website, Making Dust with Charles Hand.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781497101500
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/25/2021
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	839,003
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

After a successful career in Electrical, Mechanical and Graphic Design, Charles R. Hand has focused his artistic design skills into creating unique scroll saw patterns and woodworked portraits since 2005. He has developed his own style and now incorporates his graphic design background into designing his own patterns, portrait design, and most recently, making layered 3D works of art. Winning several awards for his designs in local woodworking and craft shows, Charles scroll saws purely for pleasure and fun. You can find Charles' award-winning work in the pages of Scroll Saw Woodworking & Crafts magazine and on his website, www.scrollsawart4u.weebly.com. He resides in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Getting Started 8

Materials and Tools 10

Basic Techniques 17

Finishing 23

Part 2 Gallery of Projects and Ideas 26

Part 3 Step-by-Step Projects 38

Project 1 Teddy Bear Trivet 40

Project 2 Spring Flower Lazy Susan 48

Project 3 Summer Love Plaque 54

Part 4 Patterns 60

Starflake Trivet 62

Peace Trivet 64

Happy Day Trivet 66

Easter Bunny Trivet 68

Shamrock Trivet 70

Delicate Spiral Trivet 72

Snowflake Trivet 74

Angelfish Bowl Trivet/Plaque 76

Hummingbird Trivet/Plaque 78

Butterfly Plaque 80

Ornate Flower Trivet 82

Sunburst Trivet/Plaque 84

Seahorse Trivet 86

Guitar Trivet 88

Mandala Trivet 90

Fancy Circle Trivet 92

Square Spiral Trivet 94

Christmas Tree Trivet 96

Heart Coaster 98

Peace Coaster 100

Anchor Coaster 102

Elaborate Plaque 104

Dragonfly Plaque 106

Spring Flower Plaque 108

About the Author 110

Acknowledgments 110

Praise for Charles Hand 111

Index 112